The Almost Impossible Gameshow

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Host

Voiceover: The Rubberbandits (Dave Chambers and Bob McGlynn)

Broadcast

Initial for ITV2, 1 October 2015 to 11 May 2016 (12 episodes in 2 series)

Synopsis

Contestants are tasked with completing straightforward but difficult challenges, with an inconsequential trophy on offer for those that succeed.

Each player has five challenges to complete and is allowed 50 failures over those five challenges. The challenges are designed to be difficult, almost impossible, such as shake baked goods off one's body in a few seconds. Fail any challenge fifteen times? Move on.

Or put on trousers while on a moving conveyor belt.

Key moments

The theme song, the first line of which is "It's not a gameshow, it's a way of life". You're half right - it's a game show, two words.

The music used in the series, much of which came from the 50s, 60s and 70s; it's been a very long time since any of have heard an Eddie Calvert record.

Catchphrases

"Fail!" - shouted by the anonymous referees, or "game failed" if a contestant had expended a game's fifteen lives.

Web links

British Comedy Guide entry

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 The theme song, the first line of which is "It's not a gameshow, it's a way of life". You're half right - it's a ''game show'', two words.
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